LTM Baltic Porter

JeffPorter · Post by **JeffPorter** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 6:22 pm

Man, is there any picture of this beer that isn't sexy?

zaireeka · Post by **zaireeka** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 11:38 pm

PeenSteen wrote:
zaireeka wrote: I'll be cracking open another bottle tonight!
Good god! Thats an expensive evening at home, though its understandable as to why you would want to drink 2 750ml bottles of this in an evening. Enjoy your evening sir because your morinig may be on the rough side

Just one tonight, the picture was taken in Oct when it first came out. I think I would still be drunk in the morning if I had 2

atomeyes · Post by **atomeyes** » Sat Dec 10, 2011 3:31 pm

midlife crisis wrote:Back to the LTM Baltic Porter. There is a definite tart cherry sourness in the mix, but I'm inclined to think it is intentional (and that element was no doubt present in historic Baltic porters). To me it adds to the complexity of the beer, which is superior to the 2010 (I bought a case of the 2010 in the private order). Now, if that tart flavour is in fact an infection and starts to overwhelm the beer as it ages, then that is a problem obviously. But I'm guessing that won't happen.

interesting that you mentioned this.
the first time i tried it, it was a year ago. my wife and i weren't impressed at all with it. REALLY bitter, in a smokey sort of way (and she digs her stouts).

a friend brought a bottle over 3 weeks ago. we let it breathe and drank it close to room temperature. it was delicious.

so not sure if it was the breathing or the vintage that made the difference.

rejtable · Post by **rejtable** » Sun Dec 11, 2011 11:42 am

Cleaned out a bottle last night. Definitely different than last year, but I can't imagine how it came off as being bad. What an amazing beer. Loved the tart.

Ale's What Cures Ya · Sat Dec 24, 2011 10:28 pm

Drinking one right now. Absolutely stunning beer and an all around world beater. Good thing I didn't take my bottles back.

sprague11 · Post by **sprague11** » Sun Jan 01, 2012 9:10 pm

Gotta love this when it's somewhere between cellar and room temperature.

Belgian · Post by **Belgian** » Mon Jan 02, 2012 8:42 pm

JeffPorter wrote:Man, is there any picture of this beer that isn't sexy?

Yes. There used to be this ONE picture of TM Baltique with Céline Dion standing in it. It has since been removed for 'extremely disturbing content.'

sprague11 · Post by **sprague11** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 7:28 pm

Had one of the bottles from this release tonight. Absolutely fantastic. Though I still believe that some of these bottles were not as the brewer intended (the ones I bought in Aurora) but the 5 I still have left are from Crossroads if this bottle is any indication, are in fantastic shape.

JeffPorter · Post by **JeffPorter** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 7:45 pm

sprague11 wrote:Had one of the bottles from this release tonight. Absolutely fantastic. Though I still believe that some of these bottles were not as the brewer intended (the ones I bought in Aurora) but the 5 I still have left are from Crossroads if this bottle is any indication, are in fantastic shape.

good to know sprague - I'm going to open one up on Canada Day, the day last year they were bottled!

Hope we get this beer again!

Belgian · Post by **Belgian** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 10:32 pm

Yeah I miss this beer! The taste is PURE Montreal Pub Crawl, when you find something outstanding - anyway all BT did was bitch, maybe we scared the LTM brewers away - I hope not!! It is great beer.

And where the F is Aphrodite vanilla bean & cocoa nib Stout from DDC, for that matter? Why are we seeing the return of DDC's barely-drinkable barley wine and quadruple, but not this incredibly amazing stuff?? (Hyperbole added for effect, Tomas!)

But kep ALL the good DDC stuff coming, thank you!

atomeyes · Post by **atomeyes** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 11:12 pm

Belgian wrote:Yeah I miss this beer! The taste is PURE Montreal Pub Crawl, when you find something outstanding - anyway all BT did was bitch, maybe we scared the LTM brewers away - I hope not!! It is great beer.

And where the F is Aphrodite vanilla bean & cocoa nib Stout from DDC, for that matter? Why are we seeing the return of DDC's barely-drinkable barley wine and quadruple, but not this incredibly amazing stuff?? (Hyperbole added for effect, Tomas!) But kep ALL the good DDC stuff coming, thank you!

that bareleywine had some serious heat to it, eh?

mine's hidden away until the winter

The Mick · Post by **The Mick** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 2:50 am

atomeyes wrote:
Belgian wrote:Yeah I miss this beer! The taste is PURE Montreal Pub Crawl, when you find something outstanding - anyway all BT did was bitch, maybe we scared the LTM brewers away - I hope not!! It is great beer.

And where the F is Aphrodite vanilla bean & cocoa nib Stout from DDC, for that matter? Why are we seeing the return of DDC's barely-drinkable barley wine and quadruple, but not this incredibly amazing stuff?? (Hyperbole added for effect, Tomas!) But kep ALL the good DDC stuff coming, thank you!
that bareleywine had some serious heat to it, eh?

mine's hidden away until the winter

I did the same. I've got 8 squirreled away that will hopefully improve with some age. I've still got a one of the LTM Baltics from this release too and I'm trying to wait until Canada Day, like Jeff, but all this talk about it is making it hard to not crack it early...

andrewrg · Post by **andrewrg** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 8:56 am

For what it's worth, here is a post where the president of LTM said that the Baltic Porter wasn't a great candidate for aging:

http://beeradvocate.com/community/threa ... post-38900

Not saying it won't get better with age, just an FYI.

atomeyes · Post by **atomeyes** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 9:28 am

The Mick wrote:
atomeyes wrote:
Belgian wrote:Yeah I miss this beer! The taste is PURE Montreal Pub Crawl, when you find something outstanding - anyway all BT did was bitch, maybe we scared the LTM brewers away - I hope not!! It is great beer.

And where the F is Aphrodite vanilla bean & cocoa nib Stout from DDC, for that matter? Why are we seeing the return of DDC's barely-drinkable barley wine and quadruple, but not this incredibly amazing stuff?? (Hyperbole added for effect, Tomas!) But kep ALL the good DDC stuff coming, thank you!
that bareleywine had some serious heat to it, eh?

mine's hidden away until the winter
I did the same. I've got 8 squirreled away that will hopefully improve with some age. I've still got a one of the LTM Baltics from this release too and I'm trying to wait until Canada Day, like Jeff, but all this talk about it is making it hard to not crack it early...

i think i have 2 bottles left and i'm trying to trade them away (cellar's too bloody full and I'm not in the mood to drink that heavy stuff during the summer)

JeffPorter · Post by **JeffPorter** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 11:15 am

andrewrg wrote:For what it's worth, here is a post where the president of LTM said that the Baltic Porter wasn't a great candidate for aging:

http://beeradvocate.com/community/threa ... post-38900

Not saying it won't get better with age, just an FYI.

Interesting. Well, I planned to drink the rest of mine this fall and winter anyway - wish I got in on the Weizenbock order, though...